No human society in the world lets the body as it is at birth. Everyone, in a more or less sharp way, alters and transforms the body during life like after death. Stolen from his merely biological and natural dimension, human body become a tool with which a society could express his specific cultural identity. So the human body is transformed in a kind of blank page on which every society and every human being write their own text. A text that tell the way they want to appear to the world.
Keywords: Body, nature, culture, identity, death.